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Norman T. Roule, National Intelligence Manager, Iran; Senior CIA Operations Officer

Interview of Thursday, 11 March 2021 of Norman Roule, former National Intelligence Manager, Iran, ODNI; former Division Chief, CIA Operations Officer, Chief of Station. Interviewer - Host: James Hughes, AFIO President, a former CIA Operations Officer. TOPIC: Norm Roule and Jim Hughes discuss the state of Iran today and how prior, and likely current and future administrations need to approach that regime. The interview runs 42 minutes and includes several Q&As. BIOS: NORMAN T. ROULE works as a business consultant on Middle East political, security, economic, and energy issues with an emphasis on the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Iran. Mr. Roule served for 34-years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing significant programs relating to the Middle East. His service in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations included roles as Division Chief and Chief of Station. He has held multiple senior assignments in Washington as well as during more than 15 years of overseas work. He served as the National Intelligence Manager for Iran (NIM-I) at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from November 2008 until September 2017. As NIM-I, he was the principal Intelligence Community (IC) official responsible for overseeing national intelligence policy & activities related to Iran & Iran-related issues, to include IC engagement on these topics with senior policymakers in the National Security Council, the Department of State and Congress. Mr. Roule received multiple national security awards during his career. Mr. Roule is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-resident Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a 2021 Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Mr. Roule is frequently asked to speak on Middle East issues & routinely appears on U.S. and international media. He is a frequent contributor to U.S. & international print media. Mr. Roule currently serves as a Senior Adviser to the Counter Extremism Project and United Against Nuclear Iran. He is CEO of Pharos Strategic Consulting LLC. JAMES R. HUGHES currently serves as the 17th President of AFIO. His service began January 2015. He had a career of US Government service spanning 37 years in numerous foreign countries with a particular focus in the Middle East. He started in U.S. Military Intelligence in the late 1960s and then joined the CIA’s Clandestine Service. He served overseas as a Chief of Station several times, and at CIA Headquarters in a number of senior management positions, including as Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division, in the Directorate of Operations [today’s National Clandestine Service]. He was also named the Associate Deputy Director of Operations (ADDO) at the National Security Agency, 1998-99. Following his retirement from the government in 2005, he joined EDS in Herndon, Virginia, as the Client Industry Executive for the U.S. Intelligence Community. After the HP acquisition of EDS, he continued to serve in a similar capacity until his retirement in 2012. His parents were missionaries in Turkey in the 1950s, where Jim spent his formative years. He is fluent in Arabic.